I See a Voice - Jonathan Ree

I See a Voice

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Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
1999
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-255793-1 (ISBN)
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The author offers a philosophical history of the human voice, noting how many leading thinkers of the age, particularly Freud, have viewed the voice as an outward expression of the soul, believing that careful listening to a voice, would lay bare the innermost fears and desires of its owner.
What is so special about the human voice? The relationship between the ear and the voice is unique among the senses. While we cannot emit light or smell or flavour at will, we control, unconsciously or consciously, the sounds that come from our mouths. For this reason, many thinkers, most notably Freud, have seen the voice as the outward expression of the soul. Careful listening to the voices of others, it was felt, would lay bare your innermost fears and desires. But given such an intimate connection between hearing and speaking, what has been the fate of those born deaf? How have they found ways of communicating? Ree's book uses fable and anecdote to examine the extraordinary treatment through the ages of the mute in Western culture. In doing so he uncovers some wonderful stories: the conflict between those who used sign language and who sought a deaf homeland and the "oralists" of Britain and Germany, who believed that the deaf should be integrated into society by being taught how to speak. Ree spins these observations and stories together to create a new genre: philosophical history, which is neither a philosophy of what history is, nor a history of ideas.
Rather, it attempts to write history from an accessibly philosophical point of view.

Jonathan Ree teaches philosophy at the University of Middlesex. As well as reviewing for the Guardian and Financial Times, he is the literary editor of the journal Radical Philosophy and co-editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers (1991). His other books include Philosophical Tales (1987), Proletarian Philosophers (1984), Philosophy and its Past (1978) and Descartes (1974).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.1.1999
Zusatzinfo 20 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 242 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete HNO-Heilkunde
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-00-255793-2 / 0002557932
ISBN-13 978-0-00-255793-1 / 9780002557931
Zustand Neuware
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